Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Nicole Parker | Former FBI Special Agent on Hate Crimes Prevailing Across the United States
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Joining me right now. One of my favorite people. She's terrific.
- 0:02Speaker 1: Her book is out, the two fbis, it's been out
- 0:05Speaker 1: of months. It's doing great. President Trump loves her too.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Former FBI lady, very very courageous woman out of Miami, Florida.
- 0:14Speaker 1: My friend Nicole Parker, Nicole, good morning, how are you.
- 0:18Speaker 2: I'm dear fabulous. How y'all doing?
- 0:21Speaker 1: We are doing great, y'all of us.
- 0:24Speaker 2: I'm in my Miami, but I'm a Texan.
- 0:26Speaker 1: You know that, No, I know, And we're going to
- 0:28Speaker 1: get to a story out of Texas Hill momentarily. Your
- 0:30Speaker 1: friend Britney, I know you think is a hero and
- 0:32Speaker 1: I do too. But I know you saw that video
- 0:35Speaker 1: I sent you the whole one weeks ago from President Trump,
- 0:38Speaker 1: and I know how much you love the president. Look,
- 0:40Speaker 1: he's taking a beating right now. The networks are telling
- 0:43Speaker 1: us every day is approval rating is less than forty percent,
- 0:46Speaker 1: and the yearan wars into its seventh month and it's
- 0:48Speaker 1: killing him and it may hurt us come midterms in November.
- 0:52Speaker 1: But I still love them, and I know so do you.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Oh absolutely. I mean I worked under the Trump and administration,
- 1:00Speaker 2: the Obama administration, the Biden administration. And I'll tell you
- 1:04Speaker 2: right now, President Trump is a gift to this country.
- 1:08Speaker 2: And from a law enforcement perspective, an FBI perspective, what
- 1:11Speaker 2: they did to him and going after him, his family,
- 1:15Speaker 2: his supporters was utterly disgusting. And when we talk about
- 1:20Speaker 2: political weaponization, you know, it's so interesting how now the
- 1:23Speaker 2: Democrats are like, you know, Trump is weaponizing the FBI,
- 1:27Speaker 2: and DJ.
- 1:28Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
- 1:29Speaker 2: It was weaponized under the Obama administration, under the Biden administration,
- 1:34Speaker 2: and he's actually trying to equally enforce the law now.
- 1:37Speaker 2: And what I love about President Trump, he did this
- 1:39Speaker 2: when he came in in twenty seventeen.
- 1:41Speaker 3: He did it again in.
- 1:42Speaker 2: The second administration. He's going in there and saying, look,
- 1:45Speaker 2: we need to attack violent crime.
- 1:47Speaker 3: We need to make our cities.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Safe, and that's what Americans care about from a law
- 1:51Speaker 2: enforcement perspective. But you know, I listened to the clip
- 1:54Speaker 2: that he praised your work, and I can understand why,
- 1:58Speaker 2: because you're tough and you tell it like it is.
- 2:01Speaker 2: And that is what I love about President Trump. You
- 2:04Speaker 2: know exactly what you're gonna get. There's no nonsense, and
- 2:07Speaker 2: that's what we need in this country.
- 2:08Speaker 1: That's who you want to So thank you for the
- 2:10Speaker 1: kind words, but that is that's you. Two a tea.
- 2:12Speaker 1: And I just saw President Trump last Barday. He was
- 2:15Speaker 1: here on behalf of Bruce Blakeman, but it was a
- 2:18Speaker 1: public safety rally. Todd blanch was here, Cash Pttel was here,
- 2:22Speaker 1: and Nassau County is the safest county in America. And
- 2:28Speaker 1: they work hand in hand with Ice Nicole, and they
- 2:30Speaker 1: got an amazing police commissioner named pat Ryder does a
- 2:34Speaker 1: great job, an amazing local DA named Anne Donnelly. And
- 2:37Speaker 1: Blakeman and Cairo and King and all those guys. They
- 2:40Speaker 1: know how to run a county. But President Trump made
- 2:42Speaker 1: sure he was here on Long Island last Friday because
- 2:46Speaker 1: he is about public safety. He has unleashed the federal
- 2:50Speaker 1: government in cities like Memphis and DC and they got better.
- 2:54Speaker 1: They got better almost overnight. So clearly to your point,
- 2:58Speaker 1: he cares.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Oh yeah, President Trump is all about back into blue
- 3:03Speaker 2: law and order and making America safe again. And I
- 3:06Speaker 2: can tell you again as an agent, there were times
- 3:08Speaker 2: that I felt that the criminals had more rights than
- 3:13Speaker 2: the victims of crimes, than the actual citizens than law enforcement.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Under President Trump, no more, and the violent crime rate
- 3:22Speaker 2: has dropped drastically. I think it's notable that last year
- 3:28Speaker 2: there was the lowest number of line of duty deaths
- 3:30Speaker 2: for law enforcement in eighty years, and that's something that
- 3:34Speaker 2: we should all be proud of. The thing that I
- 3:36Speaker 2: love about President Trump is he doesn't just talk about things,
- 3:39Speaker 2: he actually does it. And so I've discussed that my
- 3:42Speaker 2: best friend at THEI special Agent Laura Schwarzenberger, was shot
- 3:45Speaker 2: and killed in the line of beauty February second, twenty
- 3:47Speaker 2: twenty one. Under the Biden administration. It came on the
- 3:50Speaker 2: five year anniversary this year. That wasn't under President Trump's administration.
- 3:54Speaker 2: But you know who took the time to call Laura's
- 3:57Speaker 2: family on the five year anniversary to honor her and
- 4:01Speaker 2: express to the family what her sacrifice means to the country.
- 4:04Speaker 3: That was President Trump.
- 4:05Speaker 2: He did more for her family than the last administration did.
- 4:09Speaker 2: I I law enforcement loves him. I mean, we've got
- 4:11Speaker 2: people out there like AOC Ma'm donnie oh. I never
- 4:14Speaker 2: said I defund the police. Yes you did. Law enforcement
- 4:17Speaker 2: doesn't forget about that. Trust me. You can't go back
- 4:20Speaker 2: on your awards when it comes to that. Law enforcement
- 4:22Speaker 2: knows who supports them, and it is President Trump atom lying.
- 4:25Speaker 1: So you live down in Miami and two people I
- 4:28Speaker 1: really love and respect one a lot of races, actually
- 4:30Speaker 1: a big primary day a couple of days ago. But
- 4:33Speaker 1: Randy Fine is a very very close friend of mine.
- 4:35Speaker 1: He beat that Jewater Dan Bazarian for Congress and Byron Donalds.
- 4:39Speaker 1: It looks like I will continue this string of republic
- 4:41Speaker 1: and governors down there Nicole, which had Rick Scott do
- 4:44Speaker 1: a great job. Ron DeSantis there right now. So again
- 4:48Speaker 1: it looks like the leadership down in Florida is going
- 4:52Speaker 1: to stay strong and that's why it will have an
- 4:54Speaker 1: honest conversation. There really is no better run state in
- 4:59Speaker 1: our country than your state today.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Yep, yep. I would have to say Florida and Texas
- 5:04Speaker 2: are my two favorite states, and those are the ones
- 5:06Speaker 2: that I live in, the ones that I'm from.
- 5:09Speaker 3: I have to give it to Ron DeSantis.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal, tough shoes to fill. He was outstanding.
- 5:17Speaker 2: I really like Governor Rick Scott as well. He's an
- 5:19Speaker 2: amazing senator, fantastic. But Ron DeSantis, I would say, is
- 5:23Speaker 2: probably the best governor in US history based on my.
- 5:27Speaker 3: Experience, what he did for us during COVID.
- 5:29Speaker 2: What he's done for our comedy keeping us safe. I mean,
- 5:33Speaker 2: it's incredible. And also I think it will remain a
- 5:36Speaker 2: Republican stronghold because under Ronda Santis there are over a
- 5:39Speaker 2: million more registered Republicans than.
- 5:42Speaker 3: Has historically been in the past.
- 5:44Speaker 2: So, you know, I wish I'm pulling for Donald. I
- 5:48Speaker 2: think it's going to be a solid race down here.
- 5:50Speaker 2: But yeah, we're very grateful for all of our solid leadership.
- 5:54Speaker 3: In Florida.
- 5:54Speaker 1: David Jolly actually was a Republican. He's now with Democrat.
- 5:57Speaker 1: He's running against Biwan Donaldson. You'll get more and more
- 5:59Speaker 1: of Publicans every day, sweetheart, because we're all leaving, leaving
- 6:02Speaker 1: New York and New Georgia.
- 6:05Speaker 2: In New York, I mean, I just live in New
- 6:07Speaker 2: York and we've been talking about this. I know you
- 6:09Speaker 2: and I I was a witness of nine eleven terrorist
- 6:11Speaker 2: attacks in New York City. I was working at merri
- 6:13Speaker 2: Lynch at the time. Once in New York, are always
- 6:15Speaker 2: in New Yorker, and my heart goes out. The twenty
- 6:17Speaker 2: five year anniversaries coming up, and you know what, they
- 6:20Speaker 2: better do the right thing for those victims' families. We've
- 6:22Speaker 2: got to support those families. That's it. We have to
- 6:25Speaker 2: denount terrorism in our country. We can't have people leading
- 6:28Speaker 2: this country who won't even denounce a terrorist attack. And
- 6:32Speaker 2: we have people that are cheering and on the side
- 6:34Speaker 2: of the born terrorist organizations groups right now American citizens that
- 6:39Speaker 2: think that we deserve nine to eleven. It's absolutely abhorrent
- 6:42Speaker 2: and we need to continue to respect the victims, families
- 6:46Speaker 2: and loved ones. Those individuals is terrifying, said, I'm to
- 6:50Speaker 2: watch these individuals. They had no better alternative than to
- 6:54Speaker 2: jump to their death. I mean, it's traumatizing for me.
- 6:57Speaker 2: It's why I went on to join the FBI. We
- 6:59Speaker 2: can never ever forget.
- 7:01Speaker 1: That's right. Frank Zilla says that every day in a
- 7:03Speaker 1: lot of those organizations care Muslim brotherhood behind Mom Donnie,
- 7:08Speaker 1: A lot of those individuals Hassan Piker behind Mam Donnie.
- 7:11Speaker 1: So when you get you know, Giovanni Galante, a nice
- 7:14Speaker 1: Sattan Island man whose wife was murdered at twenty nine
- 7:17Speaker 1: years old, to get a petition going and you've got
- 7:19Speaker 1: ninety thousand signatures, and then you get these New York
- 7:22Speaker 1: politicians like the seek the speaker of the City Council,
- 7:26Speaker 1: Julie men in other city council members who are saying, no,
- 7:30Speaker 1: the mayors should be there. What do you mean the
- 7:32Speaker 1: mayor should be there. I've been saying this all morning long.
- 7:34Speaker 1: There's nothing in his job description. He's got to balance
- 7:37Speaker 1: the budget, he's got to win the police department. He
- 7:39Speaker 1: doesn't need to be there. The families don't want him there.
- 7:42Speaker 1: That's the bottom line, Nicole.
- 7:45Speaker 2: It's all about the victims. Okay, that's the bottom line.
- 7:48Speaker 2: What the victims want is what you do, curiot. End
- 7:50Speaker 2: of story. I have the same approach in the FBI,
- 7:53Speaker 2: a victim centered approach. It is their loved ones that
- 7:55Speaker 2: are no longer with them. It is all about honoring
- 7:58Speaker 2: and respecting them and their wishes.
- 8:00Speaker 1: So if the majority of them don't want the mayor there,
- 8:02Speaker 1: why would local officials being saying dumb things like, well,
- 8:05Speaker 1: he should be there. Every mayor goes, well, every mayor
- 8:08Speaker 1: doesn't have relationships with people who said we deserve nine
- 8:11Speaker 1: to eleven? Is that not right?
- 8:12Speaker 2: Correct? That is absolutely correct. It is absolutely shocking and
- 8:18Speaker 2: despicable to me. Like I said, I never thought when
- 8:20Speaker 2: I was witnessing that twenty five years ago. That fast
- 8:23Speaker 2: forward twenty five years. That will have people in our
- 8:26Speaker 2: own country that would be supporting and unwilling.
- 8:32Speaker 3: To condemn a terrorist attack.
- 8:34Speaker 2: And there are certain individuals that have said that we
- 8:36Speaker 2: deserve that. It is sick, it is evil, it is wrong,
- 8:40Speaker 2: and again, whatever the victims' families want, that's what should happen.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Well, said Nicole Parker, amazing ATBI Agent two ATBIS that
- 8:47Speaker 1: book is out doing great. She's down in Miami this morning. Okay,
- 8:50Speaker 1: I got a couple of minutes left. I want to get
- 8:52Speaker 1: to this. Tell everybody why, and I agree she is why.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Brittany mcfallan down there in Texas is a hero, all right.
- 9:00Speaker 2: So that happens to be my sister. She has very
- 9:03Speaker 2: strong feelings. You know, I work for Fox News. They're incredible,
- 9:07Speaker 2: and Brittany told me about how they had contacted her.
- 9:12Speaker 2: She has a daughter that just entered kindergarten and they're
- 9:15Speaker 2: in the public school system right now. She debated on
- 9:17Speaker 2: private versus public because of issues like this. As you
- 9:20Speaker 2: can imagine, she was in Austin. She's obviously a conservative Christians,
- 9:24Speaker 2: and you know that's not as common in Austin as
- 9:27Speaker 2: it is in other places in Texas, but they were
- 9:30Speaker 2: notified that the Time Commandments would be displayed in each classroom.
- 9:34Speaker 2: And there are parents that are up in arms about
- 9:36Speaker 2: it down in Texas, and you know, and that's the thing, like,
- 9:40Speaker 2: we're all about religious freedom. And what my sister said
- 9:44Speaker 2: in the Fox News article is that they're not shoving
- 9:47Speaker 2: it down your throat. It's simply displayed. It's not like
- 9:49Speaker 2: you walk in the classroom and you pledge allegiance to
- 9:51Speaker 2: the ten Commandments, but what the Time Commandments say, regardless
- 9:56Speaker 2: of your religious belief on her your parents, don't steal,
- 10:02Speaker 2: don't kill. I mean, these are things that are good
- 10:05Speaker 2: for your children to learn. And so I think it's
- 10:07Speaker 2: important that we all have a voice. And I think
- 10:10Speaker 2: for far too long people have been told to be
- 10:12Speaker 2: silenced about their religious voice, and only certain religions are allowed.
- 10:16Speaker 3: To speak up.
- 10:17Speaker 2: And that can't be the way that it is. And so,
- 10:20Speaker 2: you know, let's see what happens. It's going up to
- 10:22Speaker 2: the Supreme Court.
- 10:23Speaker 3: But these are.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Good moral principles. And again, they are not preaching it
- 10:29Speaker 2: in the classroom. If a child approaches a teacher and
- 10:32Speaker 2: ask them about it, the teacher is notified, is expected
- 10:35Speaker 2: to notify the parent. Hey, your child approcious about this
- 10:38Speaker 2: and they have questions, and at the end of the day,
- 10:40Speaker 2: the ultimate learning needs to be inside your home. I
- 10:43Speaker 2: believe that the family is the fundamental unit of society
- 10:45Speaker 2: and the foundation. But I do think that Texas has
- 10:49Speaker 2: a good thing going and there's amazing leadership down to
- 10:52Speaker 2: Texas as well. But let's see what happens.
- 10:55Speaker 1: I agree that your sister would needs a hero. And
- 10:58Speaker 1: if that animal that walked into that school in a
- 11:00Speaker 1: wild day, which is in Texas and murdered all those
- 11:03Speaker 1: children that day, if that kid had gone to church,
- 11:06Speaker 1: if that kid did have some religion in his life,
- 11:10Speaker 1: I don't think he would have done it. I think that,
- 11:12Speaker 1: you know, we are really failing in this country by
- 11:16Speaker 1: basically crapping on and now we know they hate the
- 11:19Speaker 1: Jews here. That's that's an old story. But you know,
- 11:22Speaker 1: I make sure that I cover every time Christian is
- 11:25Speaker 1: attacked in this country because it's also way too high
- 11:28Speaker 1: the number for my liking. So religion not a bad thing.
- 11:33Speaker 2: Yeah, hate crimes are never acceptable every anywhere. I don't
- 11:37Speaker 2: care what religion you are. But again, there's this loud
- 11:41Speaker 2: voice of the progressive liberal side that is literally shoving
- 11:45Speaker 2: doctrine Nation down your child's throat. But yet you're not
- 11:49Speaker 2: allowed to say anything about Judeo Christian you know, ideas
- 11:53Speaker 2: or teachings, and so let's get back to basics. I
- 11:57Speaker 2: think Texas is, you know, I hope it's the groundwork
- 12:00Speaker 2: for something that could be going nationwide. But let's see
- 12:04Speaker 2: what the Supreme Court says. But I appreciate that my
- 12:06Speaker 2: sister has the courage to stand up because for far
- 12:09Speaker 2: too long it was only the less wing progressives that
- 12:11Speaker 2: were allowed to have a voice. And you know what,
- 12:12Speaker 2: there's many opinions that need to be heard at the table.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Like my friend Vicki Palladino says, another amazing city council member.
- 12:18Speaker 1: If they can have Priamatz, Nicole Ponker and city Hall,
- 12:22Speaker 1: and we can have the Ten Commandments on a classroom wall,
- 12:26Speaker 1: not justin Texas but all over the country. Please congratulate
- 12:29Speaker 1: your sister, Whitney Romishi's awesome. And some of you, Nicole Palker,
- 12:33Speaker 1: great job this morning, love having you.
- 12:35Speaker 2: How are you and so are you? And congratulations to
- 12:37Speaker 2: you and thanks for your work.
- 12:39Speaker 3: And yeah, God blessed America.
- 12:41Speaker 1: God bless you. What a great job right there. Nicole
- 12:43Speaker 1: Parker amazing former FBI agent. Her book is out that
- 12:46Speaker 1: two webis go out there and read it, and she's
- 12:49Speaker 1: just a rivet.
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